Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

Second Edition

Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Extensively revised and expanded in this second edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring seventy-one accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--it addresses both theory and practice. Asking what really matters, the first section of the book explores the abstract ideas of human value and value in nature. The second section turns to the question of what it would take to solve our real-world environmental problems. This second edition features new chapters on climate change, urban management issues, and technology (Chapters 12-14) and twenty-nine new readings, including two selections that were custom-written for this anthology.

Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

Second Edition

Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Description

Extensively revised and expanded in this second edition, Environmental Ethics: What Really Matters, What Really Works examines morality from an environmental perspective. Featuring seventy-one accessible selections--from classic articles to examples of cutting-edge original research--it addresses both theory and practice. Asking what really matters, the first section of the book explores the abstract ideas of human value and value in nature. The second section turns to the question of what it would take to solve our real-world environmental problems. Moving beyond the "hype," it presents authoritative essays on applying environmental ethics to the issues that matter right now. The book is enhanced by chapter introductions ("Questions for Reflection and Discussion")
that offer brief summaries and questions for further analysis and class discussion.

Ideal for undergraduate courses in environmental ethics, environmental philosophy, and environmental studies, Environmental Ethics, Second Edition, is also a helpful resource for graduate students and professors.

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Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Table of Contents

*=New to this Edition PrefaceRules, Principles, and Integrity: A General IntroductionPART I. WHAT REALLY MATTERS? ESSAYS ON VALUE IN NATURE Chapter 1. Where We Are and How We Got Here: The Roots of Crisis Questions for Reflection and Discussion: GuiltLynn White, Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecological CrisisJ. Baird Callicott, Environmental Philosophy Is Environmental Activism: The Most Radical and Effective Kind* Shepard Krech, III, Pleistocene ExtinctionsHoward F. Lyman with Glen Merzer, Mad Cowboy: The Cattle Rancher Who Won't Eat Meat* Michael Pollan, The (Agri)Cultural Contradictions of Obesity* Bill McKibben, Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the
Durable FutureChapter 2. Respect for Nature Introduction: The Last Man and the Search for Objective ValueRespect for Animals Questions for Reflection and DiscussionPeter Singer, All Animals Are EqualMark Sagoff, Animal Liberation and Environmental Ethics: Bad Marriage, Quick DivorceHolmes Rolston, III, Values in and Duties to the Natural WorldIan John Whyte, The Elephant Management DilemmaRespect for Life Questions for Reflection and DiscussionChristopher D. Stone, Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural ObjectsGary Varner, Biocentric IndividualismEqual Respect Jennifer Zamzow, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and DiscussionPaul W. Taylor, The Ethics of Respect for NatureDavid Schmidtz, Are All Species Equal?Chapter 3. Holistic Ethics Michael Bukoski, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and Discussion: The LandAldo Leopold, The Land Ethic* Arne Naess, The Shallow and the Deep, Long-Range Ecology Movement: A SummaryElliott Sober, Philosophical Problems for EnvironmentalismRamachandra Guha, Radical American Environmentalism and Wilderness Preservation: A Third World CritiqueChapter 4. Ecofeminism Daniel Silvermint, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and Discussion: Three Models of OppressionKristen Hessler and Elizabeth Willott, Feminism and EcofeminismKaren J. Warren, The
Power and the Promise of Ecological Feminism* Greta Gaard and Lori Gruen, Ecofeminism: Toward Global Justice and Planetary HealthGita Sen, Women, Poverty, and Population: Issues for the Concerned EnvironmentalistV. Rukmini Rao, Women Farmers of India's Deccan Plateau: Ecofeminists Challenge World ElitesChapter 5. Environmental Justice John Thrasher, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and Discussion: Justice to Win* Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Environmental Justice: Creating Equality, Reclaiming Democracy* Vandana Shiva, Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and ProfitDavid Schmidtz, Natural Enemies: An Anatomy of Environmental ConflictChapter 6. How Wild Does Nature Have to Be? Questions for Reflection and Discussion: An Allegory* John Muir, Hetch Hetchy ValleyMartin H. Krieger, What's Wrong with Plastic Trees?* Elizabeth Willott, Restoring Nature, Without Mosquitoes?* David Pitcher and Jennifer Welchman, Can an Environmental Paradise be Regained? The Hetch Hetchy Valley QuestionChapter 7. Finding Our Place in Nature Dominating Nature Questions for Reflection and Discussion* Val Plumwood, Being PreyFreya Mathews, Letting the World Grow Old: An Ethos of Countermodernity* Michelle Nijhuis, Bonfire of the SuperweedsLearning to Belong Questions for Reflection and Discussion* Ronald Sandler, Environmental Virtue EthicsThomas
E. Hill Jr., Ideals of Human Excellence and Preserving Natural EnvironmentsThe Simple Life Questions for Reflection and DiscussionMark Sagoff, Do We Consume Too Much?* Joshua Colt Gambrel and Philip Cafaro, The Virtue of Simplicity* Paul Schwennesen, On the Ethics of RanchingPART II. WHAT REALLY WORKS? ESSAYS ON HUMAN ECOLOGY Chapter 8. Weighing Our Options Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Optimal PollutionSteven Kelman, Cost-Benefit Analysis: An Ethical CritiqueAndrew Brennan, Moral Pluralism and the Environment* Martha C. Nussbaum, The Costs of Tragedy: Some Moral Limits of Cost-Benefit AnalysisDavid Schmidtz, A Place for Cost-Benefit AnalysisChapter9. The Logic of Scarcity Questions for Reflection and DiscussionGarrett Hardin, The Tragedy of the CommonsDavid Schmidtz, The Institution of Property* Carol M. Rose, Liberty, Property, Environmentalism* Dan C. Shahar, Free-Market Environmentalism Pace Environmentalism?Chapter 10. What It Takes to Preserve Wilderness Questions for Reflection and Discussion: South AfricaDavid Schmidtz, When Preservationism Doesn't Preserve* David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott, Reinventing the Commons: An African Case Study* Lynn Scarlett, Choices, Consequences, and Cooperative Conservation: A New Environmentalism?Chapter 11. Overpopulation and What to Do About It Questions for Reflection
and Discussion: The Population BombPeter Singer, Famine, Affluence, and MoralityGarrett Hardin, Living on a LifeboatHolmes Rolston, III, Feeding People Versus Saving NatureHenry Shue, Global Environment and International InequalityElizabeth Willott, Recent Population TrendsChapter 12. Climate Change and What to Do About It Dan C. Shahar, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and Discussion: Handing Down a Warmer World* Dale Jamieson, Ethics, Public Policy, and Global Warming* Stephen M. Gardiner, A Perfect Moral Storm: Climate Change, Intergenerational Ethics, and the Problem of Corruption* Andrew Light, Climate Ethics for Climate Action* John Christy,
Testimony, U.S. House Ways and Means CommitteeChapter 13. Cities and What to Do About Them Questions for Reflection and Discussion: Taking Scarcity SeriouslyJessica Woolliams, Designing Cities and Buildings as if They Were Ethical ChoicesLynn Scarlett, Making Waste Management PayRobert Glennon, Unquenchable: America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It* Garland D. Cox, Energy* Tom Fournier, Air Pollution Abatement StrategiesChapter 14. Technology and What to Do About It Scott Boocher, guest editorQuestions for Reflection and Discussion: Innovation and Risk Management* Gary Comstock, Ethics and Genetically Modified Foods* Paul B. Thompson and William Hannah, Novel and
Normal Risk: Where Does Nanotechnology Fit In?* Joshua Colt Gambrel, Virtue Theory and Genetically Modified CropsChapter 15. Environmentalism in Practice Questions for Reflection and Discussion: The Ethics of ConfrontationBryan G. Norton, The Environmentalists' Dilemma: Dollars and Sand DollarsBryan G. Norton, Fragile FreedomsPaul Watson, Tora! Tora! Tora!Kate Rawles, The Missing Shade of GreenAndrew Light, Taking Environmental Ethics Public

Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

Second Edition

Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Author Information

David Schmidtz is Kendrick Professor of Philosophy and joint Professor of Economics at the University of Arizona. He is the author of Person, Polis, Planet (2008), Elements of Justice (2006), and Rational Choice and Moral Agency (1995), and coauthor of A Brief History of Liberty (2010).

Elizabeth Willott is a Principal Research Specialist in the School of Geography and Development at the University of Arizona, where she is a primary investigator on a National Science Foundation grant researching mosquito ecology in Tucson. She is also Curator of Butterfly Magic at Tucson Botanical Gardens, where she oversees the running of the butterfly display and education relative to it.

Environmental Ethics

What Really Matters, What Really Works

Second Edition

Edited by David Schmidtz and Elizabeth Willott

Reviews and Awards

"The new edition is an improvement on what was, in my opinion, already the best textbook available on the subject. I will certainly adopt the new edition for future environmental ethics classes. Price was an important factor in my decision."--Dan Perry, Texas Tech University